Virginia shooter just another of the left’s perpetual victims

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The White House on Wednesday jumped on the tragic on-air murder of two Virginia journalists as another opportunity to spin a senseless killing into an argument for scrapping the 2nd Amendment. What the White House failed to mention, however, was the gunman’s unhealthy obsession with the current politics of perpetual victimhood and racial division being pushed by the left in America.

Just after the murders of reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, alleged gunman Vester Lee Flanagan (aka Bryce Williams) took to Twitter to announce his racial motivation for the heinous crime.

In a separate, rambling letter faxed to ABC News, the mentally deranged suspect described being motivated to kill whites following media coverage of the racial component of the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

From ABC:

In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:

“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”

“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.”

It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. …

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In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family.”

–He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work –He says he has been attacked by black men and white females –He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man

“Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….”

“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”

That Flanagan sought opportunities to play victim was reiterated in interviews Wednesday with management of WDBJ, the station that fired him two years ago for being “difficult to work with.”

“He was looking for people to say things he could take offense to,” WDBJ general manager Jeff Marks said during a broadcast.

Marks later recalled that the alleged gunman didn’t take the firing well, “We had to call the police to escort him from the building.”

Flanagan reportedly filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the firing, just as he had after a previous firing from a Florida NBC affiliate in 2000. Both complaints were dismissed by the EEOC after investigations turned up no wrongdoing.

Folks like White House press secretary Josh Earnest have disregarded Flanagan’s motivations and false sense of victimhood and used the killings to call, again, for increased gun control.

Earnest said: “This is another example of gun violence that has becoming all-too-common in communities large and small. And while there is no piece of legislation that can end all violence in this country, there are some common sense things that only Congress can do that we know will have a tangible impact on reducing gun violence in this country. And Congress could take those steps in a way that will not infringe on the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans. And the president has long advocated Congress taking those steps, and the president continues to feel they should do so.”

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe also used the tragedy to push gun control propaganda.

He said in a statement: “As we reflect with heavy hearts on this tragedy, it is appropriate to begin to ask questions about how we can prevent these senseless events in the future. Keeping guns out of the hands of people who would use them to harm our family, friends and loved ones is not a political issue; it is a matter of ensuring that more people can come home safely at the end of the day. We cannot rest until we have done whatever it takes to rid our society of preventable gun violence that results in tragedies like the one we are enduring today.”

After the Charleston shooting, the left similarly began screaming about the need for more gun control. But there was also an intense focus on the racial component of the crime which led to a totally distracting and needless conversation about displaying flags carried by the Confederate army a century and a half ago.

But don’t expect the left to discuss how Flanagan had evidently latched on to a popular narrative that allowed him to see himself as a black victim oppressed by white institutions which refuse to help him get ahead.

It is time for some “common sense.” But it has nothing to do with gun control.

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